BuccaneersFan.com • Player Spotlight • Tampa Bay No. 13
Farewell tribute graphic: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, March 2026.
Wide receiver • Buccaneers legend
The standard wears thirteen
Michael Lynn Evans
- Born
- August 21, 1993 • Galveston, Texas
- Listed size
- 6 feet 5 inches • 231 pounds
- High school
- Ball High School • Galveston, Texas
- College
- Texas A&M • 2012–2013 playing seasons
- NFL Draft
- 2014 • Round 1 • Pick 7 • Tampa Bay
- Buccaneers
- 2014–2025 • 12 seasons • No. 13
- Current club
- San Francisco 49ers • 2026–present • No. 5
The first three figures cover Tampa Bay regular seasons from 2014 through 2025. His NFL career continues with San Francisco. Sources: official player profile, career milestones and Tampa Bay’s farewell retrospective. The 2026 statistics below are partial through November 1 (Week 8).
A number that became part of Tampa Bay
For twelve seasons, a pass climbing toward No. 13 gave Buccaneers fans a reason to rise from their seats. Mike Evans made the difficult look familiar: the catch above a defender, the sideline grab, the touchdown that brought the cannons to life. Then he came back the next year and built on it.
His Tampa Bay career finished with franchise records of 866 receptions, 13,052 receiving yards and 108 receiving touchdowns. A championship and six Pro Bowl selections gave that production its proper company. The numbers are remarkable; their staying power is what made Evans a fixture for the Krewe. Official career milestones.
Evans moved to San Francisco in March 2026. This Spotlight celebrates the twelve seasons he gave Tampa Bay while following the career that continues beyond them. No. 13 remains the jersey at the heart of his Buccaneers story. The 49ers’ signing announcement.
The Buccaneers chapter
2014–2025: twelve seasons of raising the bar
2014–2019 Big expectations, bigger production.
Tampa Bay selected Evans seventh overall on May 8, 2014, pairing the Texas A&M receiver with Vincent Jackson. The Bucs wanted size and the ability to win contested catches; Evans arrived with both. The original draft announcement.
His rookie season brought 1,051 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns. He caught a career-high 96 passes in 2016, then set Tampa Bay’s single-season receiving-yardage record with 1,524 in 2018. By the end of 2019, the once-promising draft pick had six consecutive 1,000-yard seasons behind him. Season-by-season records; franchise retrospective.
2020–2022 A championship, then more milestones.
The 2020 season finally brought Evans to the playoffs, where his first four appearances ended with a Super Bowl ring. He opened the run with 119 receiving yards at Washington and scored in both the Divisional Round and NFC Championship. His playoff debut; championship-run statistics.
He followed with a career-best 14 receiving touchdowns in 2021. The next season’s division-clinching win over Carolina supplied another signature afternoon: ten catches, 207 yards and three touchdowns on January 1, 2023. Tampa Bay’s memorable-games retrospective.
2023–2025 History, a final catch and a farewell.
In 2023, Evans earned his second AP second-team All-Pro selection and shared the NFL lead with 13 receiving touchdowns. His 2024 season added an eleventh straight 1,000-yard campaign and a sixth Pro Bowl invitation. All-Pro recognition; sixth Pro Bowl selection.
Injuries limited him to eight games in 2025, ending the yardage streak. He finished that season with 30 catches, 368 yards and three touchdowns. Tampa Bay’s farewell the following March closed a twelve-year playing chapter with appreciation for what he had accomplished on and off the field. The Buccaneers’ tribute.
January 5, 2025 • A finish the Krewe will remember
Nine yards that meant eleven years
On the final play of the 2024 regular season, Evans stood at 995 receiving yards. His nine-yard catch against New Orleans carried him to 1,004 and set off a celebration that reached far beyond one more reception. Eleven seasons into his career, he had reached 1,000 yards in every one of them. Tampa Bay’s account of the final catch.
The 2014–2024 streak was the longest to begin an NFL career and matched Jerry Rice’s record for consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons at any point. It ended in 2025, but its place in history was already secure. The season table below shows the entire run, including the years when every last yard mattered. The completed streak and its place in NFL history.
February 7, 2021 • Raymond James Stadium • Tampa
Super Bowl LV: the wait ends with a ring
Super Bowl LV • Final
31 – 9
TAMPA BAY / KANSAS CITY
A first playoff run.
A championship on home turf.
BUCCANEERS 31 • CHIEFS 9
Super Bowl LV: 1 reception • 31 yards
Entire title run: 11 receptions • 204 yards • 2 TD
Evans’ 31-yard catch in the second quarter took Tampa Bay to the Kansas City six-yard line. Later, two pass-interference penalties on throws in his direction helped the Bucs move into position for Antonio Brown’s touchdown immediately before halftime.
His receiving line for the game was one catch, but the evening belonged to the team he had helped build. Tampa Bay beat Kansas City 31–9, and Evans completed his first postseason as a champion. Official Super Bowl LV gamebook (PDF).
The championship route: Washington → New Orleans → Green Bay → Kansas City in Super Bowl LV.
Super Bowl LV concluded the 2020 NFL season. Its receiving figures are already included in his 2020 postseason and career postseason totals. Full-run source: Tampa Bay’s 2020 postseason record.
Galveston → College Station → Tampa Bay
Texas roots, a national stage
From the basketball court to the football field
Evans grew up in Galveston, Texas, and attended Ball High School. Basketball was a major part of his early athletic life; he played just one high-school football season, as a senior. The combination of size, timing and coordination gave him an unusual foundation for the receiver he would become. Official personal biography.
Texas A&M provided the next step. His two playing seasons there were enough to make him one of the first players selected in the 2014 draft.
Two seasons that made the NFL take notice
Across 26 college starts in 2012 and 2013, Evans caught 151 passes for 2,499 yards and 17 touchdowns. His final season produced 1,394 yards and 12 touchdowns, with consensus All-America and first-team All-SEC honors, plus a place among the Biletnikoff Award finalists.
That 2013 season included 279 receiving yards against Alabama and 287 yards with four touchdowns against Auburn. These were the performances that made his ability to win the ball in the air impossible to overlook. Texas A&M’s draft-declaration announcement.
The receiving record
Tampa Bay’s totals, the complete NFL career
The Buccaneers row covers Evans’ completed 2014–2025 Tampa Bay career. The San Francisco row is his partial 2026 season. Both are included in the NFL regular-season total; playoff statistics remain separate.
| Season / scope | Team | G | GS | Rec | Yards | Avg | Long | Rec TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buccaneers: 2014–2025 | TB | 176 | 175 | 866 | 13,052 | 15.1 | 75 | 108 |
| 2026: through Nov. 1 (W8) | SF | 6 | 6 | 27 | 420 | 15.6 | 54 | 3 |
| NFL regular-season career: through W8 | TB / SF | 182 | 181 | 893 | 13,472 | 15.1 | 75 | 111 |
| Postseason career: through 2025 | TB | 10 | 10 | 52 | 801 | 15.4 | 55 | 6 |
TB = Tampa Bay Buccaneers; SF = San Francisco 49ers. G = games played; GS = games started; Rec = receptions; Yards = receiving yards; Avg = yards per reception; Long = longest reception, in yards; Rec TD = receiving touchdowns. Totals are summed from the season rows; longest reception is a maximum. Aggregate and postseason averages are calculated directly from yards divided by receptions and rounded to one decimal. Regular-season row averages follow the official career table. Scroll across wide tables on small screens; keyboard users can focus the table region and use the arrow keys.
Regular-season source: official career statistics; starts from the official player profile. Postseason sources are linked with the expanded tables. Statistics checked November 3, 2026.
Honors earned in pewter & red
- Super Bowl LV champion: 2020 season.
- Six Pro Bowl selections: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2024 seasons.
- AP second-team All-Pro: 2016 and 2023.
- 2014 PFWA All-Rookie Team.
- Four Buccaneers Walter Payton Man of the Year nominations: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024.
Sources: official honors list and sixth Pro Bowl announcement. Pro Bowl years above identify the NFL season, not the calendar year of the all-star event.
The scoreboard belongs in the story, too
On September 29, 2024, Evans caught a two-yard touchdown against Philadelphia and became Tampa Bay’s all-time scoring leader. His 596 points at that moment moved him past Martín Gramática’s 592. The scoring-record announcement.
Receiving touchdowns and total touchdowns are different measures: his completed Tampa Bay career includes 108 receiving touchdowns and 109 total touchdowns. The receiving tables on this page use the former figure. The franchise-record breakdown.
Season-by-season receiving • Tampa Bay and San Francisco
| Season / scope | Team | G | GS | Rec | Yards | Avg | Long | Rec TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | TB | 15 | 15 | 68 | 1,051 | 15.5 | 56 | 12 |
| 2015 | TB | 15 | 14 | 74 | 1,206 | 16.3 | 68 | 3 |
| 2016 | TB | 16 | 16 | 96 | 1,321 | 13.8 | 45 | 12 |
| 2017 | TB | 15 | 15 | 71 | 1,001 | 14.1 | 42 | 5 |
| 2018 | TB | 16 | 16 | 86 | 1,524 | 17.7 | 72 | 8 |
| 2019 | TB | 13 | 13 | 67 | 1,157 | 17.3 | 67 | 8 |
| 2020 | TB | 16 | 16 | 70 | 1,006 | 14.4 | 50 | 13 |
| 2021 | TB | 16 | 16 | 74 | 1,035 | 14.0 | 46 | 14 |
| 2022 | TB | 15 | 15 | 77 | 1,124 | 14.6 | 63 | 6 |
| 2023 | TB | 17 | 17 | 79 | 1,255 | 15.9 | 75 | 13 |
| 2024 | TB | 14 | 14 | 74 | 1,004 | 13.6 | 57 | 11 |
| 2025 | TB | 8 | 8 | 30 | 368 | 12.3 | 45 | 3 |
| 2026 — through W8 | SF | 6 | 6 | 27 | 420 | 15.6 | 54 | 3 |
| NFL career through 2026 W8 | TB / SF | 182 | 181 | 893 | 13,472 | 15.1 | 75 | 111 |
Tampa Bay rows are highlighted. The 2026 San Francisco row is incomplete and covers statistics through November 1, Week 8. The eleven consecutive 1,000-yard seasons are 2014 through 2024; 2025 ended that streak.
Postseason receiving • five playoff seasons in Tampa Bay
| Season / scope | G | GS | Rec | Yards | Avg | Long | Rec TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 204 | 18.5 | 35 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 236 | 13.9 | 55 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 74 | 12.3 | 20 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 195 | 17.7 | 29 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 92 | 13.1 | 23 | 1 |
| Postseason career | 10 | 10 | 52 | 801 | 15.4 | 55 | 6 |
Season identifies the preceding regular season. The January 2025 Washington game belongs to the 2024 postseason; Evans had no 2025 postseason appearance. The 2026 postseason had not begun at this page’s update. All listed appearances were starts. The 2020 average is calculated as 204 yards divided by 11 catches, rounded directly to 18.5.
Official Tampa Bay postseason receiving tables: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Career appearances and starts: official career biography.
Every playoff appearance • ten starts, one championship
| Game date | Season / round | Opponent | Result | Rec | Yards | Long | Rec TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 9, 2021 | 2020 Wild Card | @ Washington | W 31–23 | 6 | 119 | 35 | 0 |
| Jan. 17, 2021 | 2020 Divisional | @ New Orleans | W 30–20 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Jan. 24, 2021 | 2020 NFC title | @ Green Bay | W 31–26 | 3 | 51 | 27 | 1 |
| Feb. 7, 2021 | 2020 Super Bowl LV | Kansas City | W 31–9 | 1 | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| Jan. 16, 2022 | 2021 Wild Card | Philadelphia | W 31–15 | 9 | 117 | 36 | 1 |
| Jan. 23, 2022 | 2021 Divisional | L.A. Rams | L 27–30 | 8 | 119 | 55 | 1 |
| Jan. 16, 2023 | 2022 Wild Card | Dallas | L 14–31 | 6 | 74 | 20 | 0 |
| Jan. 15, 2024 | 2023 Wild Card | Philadelphia | W 32–9 | 3 | 48 | 21 | 0 |
| Jan. 21, 2024 | 2023 Divisional | @ Detroit | L 23–31 | 8 | 147 | 29 | 1 |
| Jan. 12, 2025 | 2024 Wild Card | Washington | L 20–23 | 7 | 92 | 23 | 1 |
| Career | 10 starts | Tampa Bay | 6 wins / 4 losses | 52 | 801 | 55 | 6 |
Scores show Tampa Bay first. @ indicates a road game. The 6–4 record is Tampa Bay’s team record in these appearances. Super Bowl LV was played at Raymond James Stadium. These games are included in the postseason totals above.
Evans produced four 100-yard playoff games. His highest postseason yardage total was 147 at Detroit on January 21, 2024. The 55-yard touchdown against the Rams in the 2021 postseason remains the longest reception in his completed postseason record. 2023 season log; 2021 season log.
Game-by-game sources: 2020 NFL log, 2021, 2022 NFL log, 2023 and 2024, corroborated by the team postseason tables and the Super Bowl LV gamebook (PDF).
San Francisco • 2026 season in progress
A new uniform, a continuing career
San Francisco announced Evans’ three-year contract on March 12, 2026. Wearing No. 5, he entered his thirteenth NFL season with a new team after twelve in Tampa Bay. The signing announcement.
Through November 1, 2026, he had 27 receptions for 420 yards and three touchdowns in six games. He missed Week 7 with rib and Achilles injuries, and San Francisco had its bye in Week 8. Those dates explain the six appearances at an eight-week cutoff; they are not a projection of his availability for later games. Week 7 team update; 49ers schedule.
2026 receiving game log • through Week 8
| Week | Opponent / status | Rec | Yards | Avg | Long | Rec TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | L.A. Rams — Melbourne | 6 | 49 | 8.2 | 13 | 1 |
| Week 2 | Miami | 3 | 54 | 18.0 | 27 | 0 |
| Week 3 | Arizona | 3 | 34 | 11.3 | 23 | 1 |
| Week 4 | Denver | 5 | 76 | 15.2 | 24 | 0 |
| Week 5 | @ Seattle | 7 | 113 | 16.1 | 28 | 1 |
| Week 6 | Washington | 3 | 94 | 31.3 | 54 | 0 |
| Week 7 | @ Atlanta — did not play | — | — | — | — | — |
| Week 8 | San Francisco bye | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2026 through W8 | 6 games played | 27 | 420 | 15.6 | 54 | 3 |
@ identifies a designated away game. The opener against the Rams was played in Melbourne, Australia. Dashes indicate no appearance or a bye, not a zero-catch game. The six appearances sum to the partial 2026 receiving total.
Sources: official 2026 player statistics and recent-game log, Week 7 absence and team schedule. Retrieved November 3, 2026.
Beyond the numbers
Mike and Ashli Evans: giving the next generation a chance
A foundation with a personal purpose
Mike and his wife, Ashli, established the Mike Evans Family Foundation in December 2017. Its work centers on helping young people, encouraging education and supporting families affected by domestic violence. The foundation’s story and mission.
That commitment gives fans another way to understand his legacy. Football created the platform; Mike and Ashli have used it to help people whose ambitions and needs extend well beyond a stadium.
Education that opens another door
The foundation awards annual college scholarships to graduating high-school seniors who face financial barriers. Its published 2026 recipients show that work continuing as his football career enters a new chapter. College scholarship program.
For the latest programs and opportunities, visit the foundation directly. A catch can change a game. Help with an education can change the choices available to a young person for years.
Sources & statistical notes
Updated November 3, 2026. Tampa Bay regular-season statistics cover the completed 2014–2025 tenure. NFL career totals include the partial 2026 San Francisco season through November 1 (Week 8). Postseason statistics cover completed seasons through 2025 and are separate from regular-season totals. Super Bowl LV is included in the 2020 postseason. Receiving touchdowns are distinct from all touchdowns and points scored. Franchise milestones and awards are identified with their season or event date. This page is a dated snapshot of an ongoing NFL career.
- Biography and NFL statistics: official 49ers player profile and career receiving record. Totals are calculated from the listed seasons; aggregate and postseason averages use total yards divided by total receptions.
- Tampa Bay legacy and image: March 9, 2026 farewell, career milestones and memorable-games retrospective. The farewell graphic is hosted by the Buccaneers/NFL image service.
- College and draft: Texas A&M’s January 2014 announcement and Tampa Bay’s original draft report.
- Milestones and honors: the 2024 finale and eleventh 1,000-yard season, franchise scoring record, 2023 All-Pro selection and sixth Pro Bowl invitation.
- Championship and playoffs: official Super Bowl LV gamebook (PDF), 2020 Wild Card recap, and the team season tables and individual game logs linked above.
- 2026 chapter: March 12 signing, October 23 injury report and 49ers schedule.
- Community: Mike Evans Family Foundation and its college scholarship program.